Bo Shi appeared in the main hall of the Anton Protectorate with a depressed look on his face.
When he arrived, all the main officers of the Huyi Army were already present.
In fact, everyone has already put on their armor and is waiting for Bo Shi's order.
"The governor is so tight-lipped!" A Sima who had been a bodyguard of Bo Shi quietly said while pulling his opened sleeves: "The governor almost concealed it!"
"No..." He opened his mouth, rubbed his hands, and whispered: "Fortunately, we are smart and heard the implication of the Governor's words..."
What a coincidence, these words were just heard by Bo Shi who walked in.
When Bo Shi heard this, the look on his face was wonderful!
Now, Bo Shi even had some doubts, did he really accept the emperor's instructions when he reported on his duties in Chang'an?
Anyway, the current situation is that rumors have been circulating in Anton for nearly a month, rumors that have been repeatedly refuted by the governor's office. Now, the Huns cavalry are approaching Anton, and some scouts may even have entered Anton.
The war has broken out.
For Bo Shi, now, good things and bad things are the same thing.
That was the invasion of the Huns.
The Xiongnu invasion used iron-clad facts to prove to the people, soldiers and civilians throughout Andong that 'the Governor of Anton had indeed received an order from the emperor, and it was an order to beware of the Xiongnu invasion!'
Now, in the face of the facts, even if Bo Shi had a hundred mouths, it would be impossible to clarify the matter.
Regardless of whether Bo Shi believed it or not, the soldiers and people of Anton believed that "the governor had indeed received the emperor's order."
The good thing is, because in the past month, the more rumors and rumors are refuted, the more people believe them.
Therefore, the entire territory of Anton has actually entered a state of war for a long time.
Each has added favors to the country, the militia of the reclamation regiment, the ranger organization, the regular army and the Korean garrison. They have already started to build up their troops.
And what kind of place is Anton?
As Governor Anton, Bo Shi knows this very well!
The main population of Andong, especially Huaihua County, is divided into three parts.
The first is the landless farmers from mainland China who immigrated here in three groups according to the "Reclamation Order" issued by the Emperor.
The people who have traveled thousands of miles and come to settle in this wild land outside the Great Wall cannot be old or weak.
All of them are strong young people, with an average age of no more than 20 years old.
In the past few years, these young people have been trained under the organization of the Reclamation Corps in addition to farming.
The instructors and captains of each settlement regiment were all retired generals of the Han army.
Their training, organization, and equipment were completely based on those of the Han Army's county soldiers and even the equipment of some settlement regiments were simply old weapons that had been eliminated and replaced by the Han Army's main field corps.
Some of the bravest guys even sent over active equipment from the field corps!
Therefore, they are both citizens and soldiers.
They have a close relationship with the various legions of the Han army, and it can even be said that they are one with honor and disgrace!
Haven't you seen that in the past two or three years, various settlement regiments have been sending regular soldiers to the Han army?
In other words, these settlement regiments are not so much militias as regular troops wearing militia vests.
If any of the small-scale settlement groups opened their arsenals, they would be filled with swords, guns, swords, halberds, bows and arrows.
Some large-scale reclamation regiments even have enough weapons and equipment to fight a war involving ten thousand people!
There are now more than 20 of these settlement groups in Huaihua County, with a total number of immigrants as high as 300,000!
After deducting the women and children, there are at least hundreds of thousands of young people left.
Even if you draw one out of five, you can easily form a fully armed elite army of 50,000 people at any time!
The second part of the population of Huaihua County consists of the "heroes" who came here from all over the world with dreams of wealth, and brought their own dry food. There are also those wealthy merchants who smelled the smell of wealth and flocked here from all over the world.
What is the number of these people?
Bo Shi knew that there were hundreds of thousands of people registered in the register alone!
I don’t know how many unregistered illegal accounts there are!
And none of these people are good people.
Rangers rob and commit plagiarism in the wild, which is a daily routine.
The merchants are not bad either, they all have armed guards, and some merchants are even just robbers in merchant skins.
You can change jobs anytime, anywhere, as long as you have the opportunity.
Last year, the Guard Army hung more than 300 heads on both sides of the trade road.
Half of them are the heads of businessmen trying to change jobs...
Bo Shi has nothing to do with these guys.
We can only use iron and blood to suppress them, and at the same time divide and disintegrate them to prevent them from creating big troubles.
And how terrible are these people?
Bo Shi remembered that last year, the Yantieguan stationed in Andong by the Shaofu once told him that Huaihua County alone had sold more than 100,000 weapons of various kinds in one year, including long knives, swords, daggers, and bows...
Most of these weapons were bought by the rangers...
You can imagine how terrifying it would be if hundreds of thousands of strong, strong, and restless guys gathered together, armed with sharp weapons!
Even Bo Shi often has nightmares about these guys revolting...
As for the third part, it is composed of Han army members, soldiers and naturalized Hao people.
The total number is nearly three to four hundred thousand!
And these are the people Bo Shi feels most at ease with.
He is also the main body maintaining order in Anton!
Among them, the Huyi Army is a main force that is completely modeled on the active field corps of the Han Army.
The equipment of the entire army is on par with the five main forces of the Han army.
Anyway, military expenses and maintenance expenses are sponsored by others, so the equipment of the Huyi Army can almost catch up with the Xiliu Camp!
The Huyi Army even obtained a breastplate system for a thousand riders!
It is this terrible legion that is suppressed here.
Only then can those rangers be made to bow their heads obediently and be like grandsons, and only then can Xianbei and Wu Heng be made to kneel down obediently and be like henchmen.
In other words, the Huns simply ran into an iron plate.
Anton is not an ordinary Han county at all.
This is a dangerous place with hidden dragons and crouching tigers!
Not to mention that Huaihua County was already preparing how to deal with the Huns' invasion as early as a month ago.
Even if you are unprepared, if the Huns bump into you, it will be like running into a wolf's den alone.
Besides being torn into pieces, Bo Shi couldn't think of any other fate for the Huns.
but……
This is also the trouble of Bo Shi.
He looked at the officers who had expressions on their faces like "Captain, it's hard for you to hide this from me" or simply "Commander, please give the order quickly!"
Bo Shi's heart is really full of suffering!
If the emperor had really given him an order, then he must be happily arranging combat missions at this moment.
But the problem is that it doesn't.
This put him, Governor Anton, into a difficult situation.
He now neither dares to admit that 'the emperor did entrust me with this...', but he also does not dare to deny it.
He even didn't dare to pretend to be confused!
The reason is simple.
Because this matter has become a political incident, and it is an extremely troublesome political incident!
As the emperor of today, the world recognizes that the king's power is granted by heaven, and he proves his destiny!
Not only did he predict that the Huns would invade, he even predicted that the Huns would be destroyed soon, and people would believe him without any doubt.
This is also the key to the fact that in the past month, the rumors that "the Huns are going to invade" in various places in Anton have become more and more fierce. It has even developed to the point where the more the Duhufu refutes the rumors, the more people believe it.
But the problem was that the emperor didn't tell him anything.
The Huns have become invaders...
If he dares to admit that ‘the emperor did issue an edict’.
Well, once this matter is reported back to Chang'an.
The crime of correcting the imperial edict will automatically be placed on his head.
Bo Shike still remembers how his great-uncle Zhihou Bo Zhao died.
It’s just a false edict!
But if he denies it...
Haha, first of all, everyone will definitely not believe it.
Secondly, it was spread back to Chang'an and reached the emperor's ears.
This is the end of his role as Governor Anton.
In fact, the future is almost gone.
As a minister, you actually don't uphold the image of the king and father, but instead speak arrogantly?
Do you still have a father-in-law in your heart?
Rebellious officials and traitors!
Everyone can get it and kill it!
As for being vague, that’s even scarier!
As a feudal official, the governor of the Protectorate who governs the mountains and rivers three thousand miles east of An on behalf of Tianmu, and a relative of the emperor, he has no such responsibilities, how can he be timid?
Going home to farm will inevitably be his fate!
I don’t know how many nobles there are who are eyeing the position of Governor of the Anton Protectorate!
Apart from other things, it is said that General Wei Qihou Dou Ying once took the initiative to ask for help and asked to come to Anton for "training".
Therefore, at this time, Bo Shi's heart collapsed.
With a bitter look on his face, he walked up to the commander's position, looked at the generals, coughed, and said almost as if his heart was bleeding: "Everyone is here, that's good..."
He raised his mind and said: "Everyone, you all know now that the Holy Emperor can see thousands of miles away and is born holy. The Huns are clowns who think they have their own tricks, but they don't know that they are all in His Majesty's Urn!"
He took the lead and knelt in the direction of Chang'an and said: "Long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty!"
The other generals quickly knelt down and worshiped happily: "Long live your Majesty, long live, long live your Majesty!"
Everyone was overjoyed and thought in their hearts: "The Holy Emperor is indeed a man of God. The Huns knew the plan immediately! The three kings and five emperors are not as good! Our army will win this battle!"
Victory means being able to cut ranks. Once you cut ranks, you can be promoted to a higher position, be granted a wife, a cute son, or even be granted the title of marquis and prime minister!
The future is simply bright!
Only Bo Shi's face was a little pale, and his heart was even more restless and uneasy.
Because he knew that he was gambling with his life.
Even if this matter reaches Chang'an, the emperor will definitely recognize and acknowledge it.
But in private, who knows what the emperor would think?
The Liu family is the most taboo about officials falsely conveying imperial edicts!
What's more, as long as you do things like correcting edicts, then even if you are doing it for the emperor's benefit.
But the emperor may not necessarily feel that way!
In essence, correcting edicts is actually stealing the king's power.
Under normal circumstances, who would like a servant who steals things from home?
Even if the owner doesn't beat the thief to death for stealing his property, I'm afraid he won't believe it again in the future...
Because I have a criminal record!
But Bo Shi had no choice.
The results of the other two choices may be worse than correcting the edict!
Bo Shi could only pray that the emperor could understand his difficulties and understand that he did this thing out of necessity and for the purpose of protecting his father.
"You gentlemen... go back immediately. Xiao Yu and the whole army: How dare you attack our Anton, the traitors of the Huns? It is said that raising an army for a thousand days and using it for a while, today is the time for us to repay your father's kindness! All the generals in the army should work hard.
To kill the enemy, the priority is to go deep and kill more, and don't let the Hu horses trample on my land of Anton!" Bo Shi reluctantly gathered some strength and issued the order.
"No!" This was the order that the generals were waiting for, and they all happily accepted the order and left.
That day, the entire Xinhua City was in a state of excitement.
The rangers almost blocked the Yamen of Anton Protectorate.
Countless knight-errant giants, with their younger brothers, knelt in front of the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion, begging only, 'The Governor will give me and other ordinary people a chance to serve our king and father'.
Many people even claim that 'when the enemy invades, they are willing to be a courier for the army, even if it is just to transport food and grass...'
Of course Bo Shi knows, what is the plan of these guys?
It's nothing more than wanting to take a ride and earn some military glory.
If possible, Bo Shi would not take them with him.
But the problem is, it won’t work without it.
These guys are not good people.
If you don't let them play, they will probably make trouble!
Besides, how can I be cold if my heart is to serve my father with my fists?
With no other choice, Bo Shi had no choice but to agree and accept them all.
This is to stabilize the rear and prevent these scumbags from causing trouble in the rear without pain in their hearts.
At the same time, these guys joined the army and brought their own rations, weapons and even armor.
Free thugs, of course Bo Shi likes them!
After the rangers received the answer, they immediately went home happily and prepared to go out with the army.
So, on the next day, Bo Shi saw more than 7,000 "troops" equipped with various weapons and armor in the military camp outside Xinhua City.
They say they are an army, but they are actually just a bunch of rabble.
These rangers had neither organization nor discipline. Standing together, they could only barely maintain their formation, but they chattered and talked like sparrows.
This made Bo Shi shake his head a little.
But it doesn't matter, the Han family already has experience in how to tame these military rangers.
Bo Shi appointed Zhang Qi, the left captain of the Huyi Army who he had single-handedly promoted, as the Sima of the Huyi Army's branch, and asked Zhang Qi to take his subordinates to manage and restrain these rangers.
Specifically, those who are disobedient and those who like to jump around will be thrown into the logistics and equipment troops.
You don't need them when you go into battle to kill the enemy or whatever.
Help transport food!
As for those who can be used, they are organized into an army and serve as a soy sauce crowd to wave the flag and shout.
In general battles, they do not need to take the field, they can just wave the flag and shout from the side.
At most, when chasing or cleaning the battlefield, let them go up and show their faces.
When this war is over, the most talented people among these people can be selected into the army.
And the rangers know this very well.
But they were still very excited and happy.
As rangers, they know very well that this is their chance to change their own destiny.
As long as you catch it, you can whitewash yourself.
If by any chance I can achieve military success, I can directly honor my ancestors and go back to my hometown to show off. (To be continued.) 8
